I plan on buying a trainer this spring so i picked up a usb transmitter from e-bay to play around with. I tried installing FMS beta 7 and when I did I got an error saying that it was missing a DLL file. After some research i found out that this is common with windows vista and i can download this file and install it manually, so i did this and the program loads. But the graphics are all messed up. Constantly flashing and background dissappears. Did some more research and it seems that this happens when you have nvidia video cards. I can get it to work by turning the textures off in the graphics menu but then the graphics are total crap. I read one post about running virual PC and installing windows XP on this, so i tried that, program loads, graphics are good, little slow but not bad. But unfortunatly my transmitter wont work.

I spend most of the day with this and im getting nowhere. Can anybody help me out? Are there any other free simulators? Is there any other way i can get fms to work on windows vista?